Forest Way Mundoe

Summary: A weathered Aboriginal engraving of a shield on a rock platform near Morgan Road in Belrose.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Foot
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Good, Siltation
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1899
  • Originally Recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
  • Campbell Reference: NARRABEEN Plate 8 Fig 16 in Aboriginal Carving of Port Jackon and Broken Bay (Download)
  • McCarthy reference: NARRABEEN Group 92 (1) in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)

Located on a small rock ledge in thick scrub not far from the busy Forest Way road is a single mundoe (foot) engraving. It is likely part of a large group of figures documented in 1899 by W.D. Campbell and later by McCarthy, which are now buried under scrub and soil.

1X3A2774 LR Forest Way Mundoe
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